Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next year he also served for six weeks in Kuwait , with the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , to counter an Iraqi threat . |
| 2 | He also asked for 21 other offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 3 | He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital . |
| 4 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 5 | In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 . |
| 6 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 7 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 8 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
| 9 | Certainly , he never looked for one moment as though there were a dose of castor oil beneath his nose . |
| 10 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |